Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-02-06
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TRADE NOTES

The glass factory proposed for Pensacola,
Fla, has been abandoned for the present.
1t is proposed to form of all the employees
OH all the New England railroads Il new
trade district of the X. of l..
The silk dyers of Paterson, n. J., have
made a demand for an increase OF 81 per
week in wages. The demand has been re-
fused.
The report comes from Paterson, \. j.,
that the locomotive business is booming.
| Orders are coming in from both the West
and South.
The new glass factory ut Atlanta, Ga,
is now supplied with u crew of wOrEmen
aud ready to begin operations in the manu-
Elcture of pressed ware and chimneys.
The l.. A. of the X. of L. ut Midway,
Pa, has over 100 members, and is rapidly
increasing in numbers. Several business
men belong to it, as we'll rs a number OF
tradesmeu and miners.
The Cunningham glass works, Pitts
burgh. which burned last Sunday night,
will ut once be rebuilt. The managers in
tend to have them running again in about
six weeks.
Two hundred and twenty-five employees
Of SELF, Schwab Il Co, Chicago, boot and
shoe manufacturers, struck oil Friday last
because of the refusal of the firm to dis
charge thirteen girls who refused to join
the X. of L.
About 800 of the IOrillard strikers re-
turned to work last Monday morning on
the firms terms, and the sarike is ended.
Tho Lorillards have all the hands now that
they will employ, and every department is
Incorporation.
The unions and the Knights Of Labor OF
st. Louis, Mo, have formed a Trades AS
sembly. All Of the labor organizations in
that city but one are represented. They
start OIL with bright prospects, and have II
good set OF officers.
Relgians continue to come to TarCntum,
! Pa, to work in the glass factory there, to
the exclusion of American w~Orkingmen.
! Were they to come Of their Owl ~vOlition
they would be welcome, but they do not
they are imported.
The Standard Plate Glass Co, OF But
Ter, Pas, will shortly commence operations
on "a new factory which, it is said, will
rival the famous works ut Creighton. The
company propose TO drill a number Of gas
wells. When completed the works will
give employment to over one hundred mcD.
The people of Dcmmler, Pa, are jubi-
liant over the fact that the steel works are
to be run double turn. The mill has been
running on single turn for a year. Two
hammers will be operated, and rs soon as
enough men can he secured two additional
hammers will be operated OF each turn.
The company has a great increase III or
dcrS.
Edward KearnS, chief engineer at the
Edith blast furnace, Woods Run, Allegheny,
was discharged last Monday without no.
ticc. and the members of l.. A. 2925 pro-
pose to Investigate ~ to the cause. 1t is
believed by them that his situation was de-
clarcd vacant because Of his activity rs a
member OF the Knights of Labor. This is
the second discharge for this cause within
two weeks.
The new friedrich works at ConnellS-
vile, Pa, started up on the 10th inst.
Friedrich works are to be started at
Lock Haven, Pa.
l.. 4. 1904, X. of L., Coalport, Pa, is
rapidly gaining in number and influence.
A local branch of the Cigarmakers' H.
ternational Union has been established in
Steubenville, o.
The carpenters of PittSburg and vicinity
have made Il demand that nine hours shall
constitute a days work on and after May
LIST next.
About 500 German tailoTs of Philadel-
phia withdrew from the Knights of Labor
last week awning to the admission of boss
tailOrS into the order.
Some of the boss timers and rO0iers OF
Cincinnati, o., say they will not accede to
the demand Of the Timers Assembly for
an advance of 20 per cent in wages ON and
after May LIST next.
The Cincinnati, o., coOpers, under the
settlement Of their troubles ut the largest
cooperaga establishment in this vicinity,
will not receive as much pay As they did
when they struck. The Trouble ut this
establishment was settled unOtliCally by 4
representative of D. A. Is.
The first prosecution under the law
paSSed at the Lust session of the Connect
| cut LEGISLATURE, "uiNh MCul iNo NlNNl
Sept. /, prohibiting the employment in
stores or factories o fChildren under thirteen
wears of age, has been made. The accused,
Superintendent p. Stlbie, of the ID. Nj.
Reed Co, was fined 81 and costs, The
boy employed was aged twelve years.
The papers that have withdrawn their
influence from the Knights of Labor and
are now opposing that society are the Toe
SIN of Philadelphia. Haverhill LHbOrCr,
Brooklyn LdJor Press. Denver LGbOr En-
guirer, Portland tOrcgonl .irdaHt-C 6ou7er,
New York JRioH r,inttT, Chicago Knight
Of Labor and the Hamilton lOntariOl Iai-
LddiUm. In the past they have been OF
great service to the noble order, bu they
have now turned against its management.
There were l21 delegates present at the
late International RriCklayerS Union an
nual convention in Washington, represent
ing . total membership OF 5000. 1t WAS
decided not to merge the Union into any
other w~OTkingmen's organization. 1t will
neither join the Knights of Labor nor aihl-
late with the American Federation of La
Dor, though permission has been given to
subordinate unions to affiliate with the
Federation If they desired to do 81.
The HtruH SAYS that a New York syndi-
cate has made an extensive purchase in
Alabama, The investment was actually
made on the 18th inst, but the facts have
heretofore been kept secret. The purchase
covers the entire town of AnniStown,
which contains about 5000 Inhabitants,
together with mineral lands and iron fur
naceS. The town and the land covers
i $500 acres and cost So, OOO, 600, md the
furnaces and lands cost s., OOO, 900 more,
making a total Investment of S., COO 1000.
Two companies were formed by the syndi-
cate-One under the name of the Admission
Company, for real estate purposes the
other for working the iron furnaces, with
which some 20, 900 acres of mineral lands
are secured. The sum of 81, 500, 600 has
already been paid on it. Admission is on
the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia